Posted by Sam Stern, Developer Programs Engineer The release of version 11.6.0 of the Google Play services SDK moves a number of popular APIs to a new paradigm for accessing Google APIs on Android. We have reworked the APIs to reduce boilerplate, improve UX, and simplify authentication and authorization. The primary change in this release is the introduction of new Task and GoogleApi based APIs to
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